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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
afraid, agitated, aguish, all shook up, all-overish, anxious, aquiver, aspen, bashful, blurred, breathy, chattering, choked, choking, cowardly, croaking, diffident, doubtful, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, faltering, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fidgeting, fidgety, fluttery, frightened, goosy, guttural, harsh, hawking, hesitant, hoarse, in a quiver, in fear, inarticulate, indistinct, jittery, jumpy, lisping, mispronounced, mousy, muzzy, nasal, nervous, palpitating, palsied, quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering, quivery, rabbity, scared, scary, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivery, shook up, shrinking, shuddering, shy, skittery, skittish, snuffling, startlish, stifled, strangled, succussatory, succussive, thick, throaty, timid, timorous, trembling, trembly, tremulant, trepidant, trigger-happy, twangy, twitchy, twittery, unsteady, unsure, velar, vibrating, wavering, wobbly, worried
Dictionary Results for tremulous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
tremulous
    adj 1: (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the
           old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a
           tremulous voice" [syn: quavering, tremulous]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tremulous \Trem"u*lous\, a. [L. tremulus, fr. tremere to
   tremble. See Tremble.]
   1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a
      tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous
      leaf of the poplar.
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   2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
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            The tender, tremulous Christian.      --Dr. H. More.
      [1913 Webster] -- Trem"u*lous*ly, adv. --
      Trem"u*lous*ness, n.
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